{"book":"adl0981","page":69,"text":"People of Pactya Province constructing a secondary road at Mangal\n\nthe north was built, it was impossible to envisage such a task; technically and economically the country could not have borne the burden of such an enterprise. Today, however, with the technical assistance that is furnished to us by the Soviet Union, this project has passed from the realm of imagination to that of reality. The Labour Corps of the Ministry of Public Works, guided by engineers from the U.S.S.R., has actively undertaken the construction of the Salang Highway. This new road, which is part of the general project of road improve-\n\nment and construction from Kabul to the North of Afghanistan, branches off at Charikar from the existing road and joins it again at Doshi, shortening the present route by 150 km.\n\nWork on the road has been divided into three phases:\n\nPhase I :From Doshi to Do Shakh\nPhase II : From Jabalussaraj to Awlang\nand\nPhase III : From Awlang to Do Shakh through the Salang tunnel.\n\n66","chars":990,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00069.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/69","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/69","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}